Although cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States, one of every five adults still ... Read More
Smoking Cessation
This Exercise Gets Rid of Mucus in Your Chest
The pandemic has changed the timing of flu season, COVID variants and even allergy season. All of that is a cause for a lot of mucus ... Read More
Black Folks & Lung Disease: Is The Damage Reversible?
According to the American Lung Association, African Americans suffer from lung cancer more than any other population group in the ... Read More
Hold Up, What? HBCU Makes Deal With e-Cigarette Brand
As students at Meharry Medical College, we are proud to be a part of a legacy of integrity that is centered on improving the health of ... Read More
Secondhand Smoke Is Still A Problem! Here’s Why…
Cigarette smoking rates in the United States are the lowest they’ve ever been. Although smoking rates have dropped by 67 percent since 1965, ... Read More
More Reported Deaths Tied to Lung Injury From Vaping
Although Blacks usually smoke fewer cigarettes and start smoking cigarettes at an older age, they are more likely to die from ... Read More
Smoking Creates Long-Lasting Risk for Clogged Leg Arteries
Tobacco use is a major contributor to the three leading causes of death among Blacks—heart disease, cancer, and stroke. However, a new study ... Read More
Why Smoking Around Expectant Moms Is Worse Than You Thought
Secondhand smoke cannot only be a deadly killer for others but for women's unborn children too. Researchers warn fathers-to-be and others ... Read More
Moms Who Smoked as Teens More Likely to Deliver Smaller Babies
After falling 8 percent from 2007 to 2014, the preterm rate has increased for the second year in a row according to new data from the CDC’s ... Read More
Living A Marijuana-Free Life Has Benefits: Marz Lovejoy Weighs In
Marijuana is and has been all the rave for decades. It’s become a staple in media, whether it’s the crux of the content or just an ... Read More
Lung Cancer One of Many Reasons Not to Smoke
About 189,910 new cancer cases were expected to be diagnosed among Blacks in 2016. One of the most commonly diagnosed cancers in the black ... Read More
Fewer U.S. Kids Use Tobacco, But Numbers Still Too High Says Officials
Kids these days are the most impressionable bunch we’ve had yet. Anything you do, say, sing or rap about will light their eyes up and get ... Read More